D.C. Arts Center: Cannibal! The Musical (through Sept. 16th)
Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s film immortalizing infamous cannibal Alfred Parker receives a theatrical adaptation. The D.C. Arts Center’s web site offers lucky theater-goers “free meat!” but given that Stone and Parker created South Park, their treatment of cannibalism complete with show tunes seems incentive enough.
The Shakespeare Theater Company: An Enemy of the People (through Oct. 22nd)
A doctor struggles to save his fellow citizens from contaminated public baths despite their naive desire to retain tourist revenues. Since 1882, this Henrik Ibsen play has been produced during volatile situations ranging from the Russian Revolution to the 1950s Communist scare—via an adaptation by Arthur Miller—for its endurance as a chameleonic political statement.
Kennedy Center Theater Lab: Shear Madness (through Feb. 2007)
The ultimate interactive experience, Shear Madness allows its audience to interview the actors and vote for the guilty party in a comedic whodunit that takes place at Georgetown’s Shear Madness Hair Salon. The Boston, Chicago and Washington productions are, respectively, the first, second and third longest running in the history of American theater.
Kennedy Center: Sleeping and Waking (Sept. 4th)
It’s a tired topic—the ethical implications of a dubious medical procedure altering the human form—but this time it involves attaching a human head to a donor body. Will they show the procedure onstage? We can only hope. This production is part of the Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage New Play Festival, which features all-new Washington theater productions.
Theater Alliance: 3?4 of a Mass for St. Vivian (through Sept. 10th)
Though the premise may seem clichéd—two girls, one with an incurable disease, search for answers to life’s questions— Mass’s creator, Phoebe Rusch, is all of 17 years old. What’s more, its Kennedy Center debut last year garnered enough critical acclaim to warrant a yearlong production run.
Woolly Mammoth Theater: In the Continuum (through Sept. 24th)
The parallel stories of two women living in Los Angeles and Zimbabwe explore black womens’ experiences with AIDS. This limited D.C. engagement is part of a worldwide tour that began in Zimbabwe.
Theater Information:
D.C. Arts Center
2438 18th Street, N.W.
Showtimes: Fri. and Sat. at 10 p.m.
Shakespeare Theater Company
450 7th Street, N.W.
Showtimes: Wed. at 7:30 p.m.;
Thurs. and Fri. at 8:00pm; Sat. at
2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.; Sun./Tues. 7:30 p.m.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
New Hampshire Ave., N.W. and
Rock Creek Parkway
Showtime: Sept. 4th at 7:30 p.m.
Theater Alliance
1365 H Street, N.E.
Showtimes: Thurs., Fri., Sun. at
8:00 p.m.; Sat. at 2:00 p.m. and
8:00 p.m.
Woolly Mammoth Theater
641 D Street, N.W.
Showtimes: Wed., Thurs., Fri.,
Sat. at 8:00 p.m.; Sun. at 2:00 p.m.
and 7:00 p.m.
